According to the City Council, to date it has already distributed around 15 bins in different strategic points of the municipality, in a pioneering initiative that uses recycled plastics for printing.

Removing a piece of chewing gum stuck to the ground in the city costs approximately one euro per piece of gum. It is estimated that in the city there are around 600,000 pieces of chewing gum on the ground, so cleaning them up will cost 600,000 euros.

“To prevent citizens from continuing to throw this waste on the ground, and after carrying out several awareness campaigns, this new initiative is being launched and these bins have already been distributed at strategic points, such as at the exit of schools, institutes or sports centres, as well as on the main avenues or busiest streets”, explained the City Council. In this way, they hope to reduce the number of pieces of chewing gum thrown on the ground in the city, and therefore also reduce the associated cost of the cleaning service.

The measures against this waste began last February when the Council incorporated several machines into the municipal cleaning service that make it easier to remove this sticky gum. That same month, a chewing gum bin was installed on Avenida Ignasi Wallis as a pilot test and its success has led the City Council to take the initiative to build these bins, using its own 3D printers. The production of each bin takes 24 hours of printing.